Master of Petersburg

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Laura and David,

thanks for your comments on Cormac McCarthy. I will give him a try as 
soon as I have finished "Against the Day" (which may yet take a while).

David, I hope you are in a safe place.

Thomas



 kelber at mindspring.com schrieb:
> I've jumped in and started reading Master of Petersburg.  I needed an antidote to The Savage Detectives by Robert Bolano, which I gave myself permission to stop reading halfway through.  That book struck me as an emotionally arid ego trip.  I'm only 50 pages into Master.  I was a little put off at first by the, not pretentious, but overly literary writing style.  I kind of have a horror of books that can be described as "well crafted" - heavy on style, weak on content.  I'm not far enough along to decide whether Master falls into that category.
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> I wouldn't describe Cormac M. as pretentious (I've only read Blood Meridian, and I've seen the movie of No Country for Old Men, so I'm no great authority).  But his apparent obsession (EVIL is afoot and it's something we all have to reckon with) isn't one I share.
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> Laura
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